Report Ultraschall in der Medizin/European Journal of Ultrasound (UiM/EJU)

The Ultraschall in der Medizin/European Journal of Ultrasound - which has been the official journal of EFSUMB since 2004 - is also the official journal of 9 national ultrasound societies (the German, Swiss, Austrian, Norwegian, Danish, Latvian, Flemish, Macedonian and Croatian) and from 2009 also of Romania. I would greatly recommend the remaining EFSUMB member countries to consider joining the bulk subscription.

Issue 1 is distributed to all 20,000 EFSUMB members, the remaining five issues are sent only to the approximately 13,000 subscribers. Because of an accumulation of accepted manuscript an additional issue was released in December 2008.

The Impact Factor for 2007 released in June 2008 showed another increase for the UiM/EJU - from 2.103 to 2.303. The journal is the highest-ranking interdisciplinary ultrasound journal.

More than 50 percent of the published articles are in English and the rest all have an extended English abstract and captions in English. During the last 12 months the five countries who submitted the highest number of manuscripts were Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria and France.

The EFSUMB Newsletter can be found in each issue of the journal, for those who do not receive the journal the Newsletter is also available at the EFSUMB website at www.efsumb.org. The Newsletters of all subscribing societies in their own national language are also in each issue.

Michael Bachmann Nielsen